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T Minus 2 for Thursday Night Football!

Can you believe we're already at Week 10, the starting point for Thursday Night Football? I'm shocked at how quickly this season has flown by and I'm starting to get those old it's-all-moving-by-too-quickly feelings and wondering (as I seem to do every year) what I'll do with my Sundays come February. Getting ahead of myself a bit? Well then I'll reel it back in and give you a bunch of waiver wire suggestions for this week and other FF tidbits:
  • Waiver wire wisdom:
  • Rotoworld's Steaming Ocho comments on a bunch of news and such from around the league but what sort of stopped me in my tracks was the note that Terrell Owens leads the league with targets at 99 (he's #3 in receptions at 55 in case you're curious). I have him in a dynasty league and definitely give him some credit for my total domination there.
  • For more on targets, carries, receptions, etc take a look at FFToday.com's All Out Blitz which has a nice (and fairly lengthy!) workload analysis OR scope out RapidDraft.com's Week 9 Targets: Fantasy Football Advice for a faster but still thorough read.
  • Finally, FFToolbox.com has some Week 10: Super Sleepers for those of you in need of serious lineup help. And by the way, I can't believe that my fellow Northwestern alum, Tyrell Sutton, couldn't take advantage of his opportunity with Carolina this past week and went out with an injury so quickly...
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Roger Lodge said…
Howdy... love the website! Based solely on value (as opposed to needs) am I giving up too much to acquire Vincent Jackson if I'm giving up D.Bowe/R.Torain? It's a standard scoring league.

Thanks!
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